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Extra storage for bodies placed at VCMC
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. As numbers continue to rise in Ventura County, some hospitals are now adding additional storage for bodies.
“I can only imagine that we will not be slowing down anytime soon,” said Dr. Raj Bhatia, who is the director of critical care at St. Johns Regional Medical Center in Oxnard.
Health experts throughout Ventura County are gearing up for even more COVID cases.
“We are only 11 days out of the New Year, and 17 days out from Christmas,” said Dr. Todd Flosi, who is the Chief Medical Officer at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura. “There is still a chance we are gong to see an increased number of patients come into the ERs and needing in patient care.”
slowly but surely. ceremony and rescue k-9s continue to comb through the ruins for missing and de. makeshift hospital is finally up and rupping, a stone s throw away from the st. john s regional medical center. jop japan s primary medical facility decimated in the storm. we have a 60-bed total in the hospital and the physicians and nurses are there treating patients. 146 human remains have now been found. according to the missouri department of public safety, the number of unaccounted for stands at 29 tonight. the governor of this state jay nixon saying everyone here is in it for long haul because it will not take weeks, not months but years before joplin is rebuilt. shannon? shannon: casey stegall live on the ground. thank you, casey. well, the president s national security shakeup appears to be done. we ll talk about it with the
sights of st. john s regional medical center and is set up in massive tents, staffed by many of the doctors and nurses from that hospital. and, here patients can get everything from mris to surgical procedures. in fact the new or will be added next week and the temporary structure will be operational, for 3-6 months. until a new hospital can be constructed. listen: we are up and running. we have a functioning hospital here with 20 bed or 18-bed emergency department. 60-bed total in the hospital and our physicians and our nurses are there, treating patients. reporter: search and rescue crews are still hard at work here in the community of only 49,000 people. cadaver dogs now going through much of the rubble. it is an arduous task and one that will last weeks, months, even years. jenna? casey steegel at the center
missouri following the story from there. casey. reporter: obviously the president was here yesterday, getting an unclose and personal look at the damage we have been showing you for the last week or so. right behind me, is what is left of the greenbriar nursing home. 146 human remains, total, have been found, in the aftermath of the storm, three of them according to the official list, are here at the nursing home, three people still remain unaccounted for and, really, the only way you know that this is a nursing home, is because you see the parking lot littered with debris. look at this here. this is a mattress, to a patient s bed. obviously the medical services and the medical facilities here have been severely impacted, as we told you last week, the st. john s regional medical center, a stone s throw away from where i am, now, was destroyed in the storm. and that is joplin s main hospital, but, look at this. encouraging news. a new field hospital is operational there now, within